Juvenile Offender

Beom-Joe So-Nyeon

South Korea

2012

107 Min

Color

Korean

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Jooyoung Park, Kang Yi-kwan

CAST Junghyun Lee, Youngju Seo

SOUND Youngjune Seo

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), San Francisco (New Directors)

Synopsis

Ji-gu is a 15-year-old juvenile offender under probation who lives with his ailing grandfather. When he is caught committing a crime, he is sent to the juvenile reformatory. Upon his grandfather’s passing, Ji-gu is reunited with his mother — whom he believed to be dead. Together they set out to make up for lost time. –TIFF

Director

Kang Yi-kwan

Kang Yi-kwan studied sociology at Korea University before attending the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He worked as an assistant director and made short films prior to his first feature film, Sa-kwa (2005), which won the FIPRESCI Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and Best New Screenwriter Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His latest feature film Juvenile Offender (2012) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.